What You Really Want by Chessa Peak
Part 1 in a 2 part series
I see soo many of my beautiful fellow man locked in their places of fixed resistance. From not wanting to move past an emotional wound, staying in a job they hate, back and forth relationships, to refusing to claim their own greatness and live as they’re intended to live life: happy. We give so much power to external forces that it just seems easier to just let go and choose to listen to ourselves and choose the path of happiness.
I understand the confusion of being locked in the cyclical repetition of negative and soul damning thoughts. It’s time to insist on better for yourself. STOP punishing yourself. You don’t have to live there… though I understand if you are locked there and my deepest condolences for your poor soul if you choose to stay, I love you anyways and my strength is with you. Choosing to be happy isn’t easy and requires a lot of soul shredding truth to get there.
So, decisiveness. In order to make real steps towards what you want (which I believe is ultimately happiness), you have to be willing to be brutally honest with yourself. If you’re not practiced in this it’s like learning a new trade. It takes time, patience, and dedication to learning how to pay attention to you. Not all of us were born or raised into this way of thinking. Those fortunate enough to have it easier don’t understand the struggle and that’s ok. This is for YOU to understand.
Maybe you really want to travel rather than be in at 9 – 5 job. Maybe you daydream about being a musician or a deep sea diver? Maybe you can’t possibly be those things but you love it? Then move yourself in the direction of your happiness. Maybe what you REALLY want is the comfort of a nice home and air conditioning. – To Be Continued next Monday!
Read more of my Mental Health series: The Lost and Found
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Chessa Peak has been in New Mexico since the age of 4 and is an honorary New Mexican. A bartender of over 10 years in the Duke City, musician, entrepreneur, and current student at CNM, Chessa is now currently working towards her own non-profit group that will support literacy, art and music programs for Albuquerque residents and her immediate community. Having come through a negative past, her writings deeply reflect the nature of her personal struggles in an attempt to help others overcome their personal battles.
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